Delicious Death

UK

Collins, London, Jan. 1934

The Grand Magazine, Mar.-May 1934

US

Dodd, Mead, New York, 1934 as "Murder in the Calais Coach"

The Saturday Evening Post, Sep. 30-Nov. 4 1933 as 'Murder in the Calais Coach'

Plot

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.

Contents

PART I - THE FACTS

1. An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express • 2. The Tokatlian Hotel • 3. Poirot Refuses a Case • 4. A Cry in the Night • 5. The Crime • 6. A Woman • 7. The Body • 8. The Armstrong Kidnapping Case

PART II - THE EVIDENCE

1. The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductor • 2. The Evidence of the Secretary • 3. The Evidence of the Valet • 4. The Evidence of the American Lady • 5. The Evidence of the Swedish Lady • 6. The Evidence of the Russian Princess • 7. The Evidence of the Count and Countess Andrenyi • 8. The Evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot • 9. The Evidence of Mr. Hardman • 10. The Evidence of the Italian • 11. The Evidence of Miss Dobenham • 12. The Evidence of the German Lady's-Maid • 13. Summary of the Passengers' Evidence • 14. The Evidence of the Weapon • 15. The Evidence of the Passengers' Luggage

PART III - HERCULE POIROT SITS BACK AND THINKS

1. Which of Them? • 2. Ten Questions • 3. Certain Suggestive Points • 4. The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passport • 5. The Christian Name of Princess Dragomiroff • 6. A Second Interview with Colonel Arbuthnot • 7. The Identity of Mary Debenham • 8. Further Surprising Revelations • 9. Poirot Propounds Two Solutions

Characters

Hercule Poirot • Bouc • Miss Mary Hermione Debenham • Colonel Arbuthnot • Samuel Edward Ratchett • Hector Willard MacQueen • Edward Henry Masterman • Mrs. Caroline Martha Hubbard • Dr Constantine • Natalia Dragomiroff • Fraulein Schmidt • Count Rudolph Andrenyi • Countess Elena Maria Andrenyi • Cyrus Bethman Hardman • Miss Greta Ohlsson • Antonio Foscarelli • Pierre Michel

Linda Arden • Daisy Armstrong • Selby Armstrong • Sonia Armstrong • Tommy Armstrong • Dubosc • Helena Goldenberg • Jerry • Johnson • Pietro • Hildegarde Schmidt • Stengelberg • Susanne • Henry Tomlinson • Tommy • W. K. Van der Halt • Demetrius Zagone • Zia

Films & TV

Hercule Poirot klärt den Mord im Orient-Express auf, W.Germany, 1955

TV drama list

Murder on the Orient Express, UK, 1974

Film list

Murder on the Orient Express, US, 2001

TV drama list

Murder on the Orient Express, ITV/UK, 2010

Agatha Christie's POIROT XII

ORIENT-kyuko satsujin-jiken, CX/JP, 2015

TV drama list

Murder on the Orient Express, US, 2017

Film list